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Steve Tracy, Afro-American studies, will be returning to China as guest professor at Central China Normal University in Wuhan at the beginning of May.
While teaching and lecturing at CCNU, Tracy will also see the Chinese release of his first book from 1988, “Langston Hughes and the Blues,...

The graduate dean invites all graduate faculty to attend the final oral examinations for the doctoral candidates scheduled as follows:
Matthew Lepori, Ph.D., Political Science. Monday, March 30, 10 a.m., 314 Thompson. Dissertation: “Place, Nature, and Political Economy: The Submerged...

The Molecular and Cardiovascular Physiology Lab is seeking participants for a study looking at how heart disease risk changes during the menopausal transition.
Women who have recently begun the menopausal transition, have not had period for 60 days or more but less than one year or have not had a...

Seth Coluzzi, assistant professor of musicology at Brandeis University, will give a Renaissance Wednesday lecture on April 1 at 4 p.m. at the Renaissance Center, 650 East Pleasant St.
Refreshments are co-sponsored by the Amherst Woman’s Club.

UMass Amherst senior Hannah Weinronk of Lexington, Mass., a public health sciences major with a concentration in food systems, was part of a three-person Real Food Challenge team that recently won first place and $75,000 from the unite4:good foundation’s national unite4:inspiration competition.

Ann Thompson, professor emeritus at King’s College London and a visiting scholar at the Renaissance Center, will speak on Shakespeare’s “Hamlet” on Wednesday, April 8 at 4 p.m. at the center, 650 East Pleasant St.
Refreshments are co-sponsored by the Amherst Woman’s...

The Renaissance Center is hosting a free community class on literature of the 16th century taught by Marie Roche.
The class meets April 1, 8, 15, 22 and 29, and May 6 from 6-8 p.m. in the center’s Reading Room at 650 East Pleasant St. Readings will be provided.
Pre-register by March 31 by...

UMass Amherst economist Gerald Epstein will offer a new take on restructuring the financial sector as part of his March 24 Distinguished Faculty Lecture, titled “When Big is Too Big: Do the Financial System’s Social Benefits Justify Its Size?”

The UMass Amherst Legal Alumni Network will present an interactive panel discussion featuring some of the leading female attorneys in New England at the UMass Club, 225 Franklin St., 33rd Floor, in Boston, on Wednesday, March 25 at 6 p.m.

Portions of sidewalks at the north end of campus on North Pleasant Street and Governors Drive are being closed as contractors begin preliminary utility work for construction of the new Physical Sciences Building.
The work is being done in the area of West Experiment Station, Lederle Graduate...